ZFS test pool using solaris
If you ever wanted to play around with ZFS but don’t want to use cold, hard disks then you can simulate disks and create a […]
NGINX Reverse Proxy Location and Path
NGINX can be easily used as a reverse proxy. To do this you simply need to modify the nginx.conf file and add what you would […]
NGINX systemd: PID file /run/nginx.pid not readable (yet?)
We got this error when trying to create a service out of the NGINX service. In order to resolve this issue the nginx.conf needed to […]
Using sed command in solaris
One of the most handy things to do with the sed command in solaris is a simple find and replace. In the example below we […]
Solaris 11 messages log file
Logfiles on solaris can be found under var, specifically /var/adm The messages file should also be contained within that directory root@solaris:/var/adm# pwd /var/adm root@solaris:/var/adm# cat […]
Restart SSH in Solaris 11
To restart SSH in solaris you can use the svcs command to view the current status of the service root@solaris:~# svcs | grep ssh online […]
Install httpd using Ansible
This is an exmaple of how to install httpd apache using ansible. In this example we created a host group called webservers and placed a […]
Install Ansible from Source (Video)
Installing Ansible from source is fairly straight forward. Download, build, and configure!
Ansible ERROR: Command “pytest -r a –color yes –junit-xml test/results/junit/python2.7-units.xml -v test/units/” returned exit status 1.
When trying to run the tests against the Ansible source I got this error [root@centos02 ansible]# make tests test/runner/ansible-test units -v –python 2.7 Unit test […]
Ansible Install Error: error: Installed distribution setuptools 0.9.8 conflicts with requirement setuptools>=11.3
I got this when trying to install Ansible from source. Needed to upgrade the setuptools in my python installation. This can be done using pip […]